Attachment for guitars.



W. J. SMITH) ATTACHMENT FORYGUTTARS. APPLICATTON FILED JAN.8,1916.

1,223,744. I Patented A r.24,1917.

WILLIAM J. SMITH, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

, ATTACEMENT ton GUITARS, I

Specification of Letters Patent;

Application filed January 8, 1916. Serial No. '?0,960.

To all whomtz'tmay concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM J. SMITH,

a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful substantially U-shaped. When it is. at

Improvements in Attachments for Guitars, of which the following is a full, clear, and

' exact specification.

This invention relates to guitars, and has for its object to provide improved means for readjusting the strings in order. to change the tone and thus cause an ordinary guitar to sound substantially like a Hawaiian guitar.

The invention contemplates the useof a.

metallic supporting member for the strings, such metallic member being, etachably placed over the nut arranged at the outer end of the handle. A special object (if the present invention is to so construct the readjuster or detachable support that it will not be apt to become accidentally displaced while the instrument is in use.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with the accompanying drawings, which constitute part of this specification, and then more specifically defined in the claims at the end of the description; In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters are usedto des-r ignate corresponding parts throughout the.

several views:

Figure 1 is a plan view'of' an ordinary guitar before my improved re-adjuste'r is attached. 1

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the outer end portion of the neck of the instrument showing the re-adjuster in operative position.

'Fig. 3 is a side view of the outer end portion of the neck, showing how the 1nverted U-shaped re-adjuster straddles the nut and.

rests upon the neck at'opposite sides thereof, d.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the re-adyuster.

the not 5 and along the neck totl e opposite Referring more particularly to the drawend of the body 1 where they are secured at 8. A Any desired form of bridge a may be employed, its construction not affecting the invention.

The re-adjuster- 9 ismadeof metal. and is Patented Apr. 24, 1917.

taohed to the instrument, it is. inverted and slipped over the nut 5, as illustrated in Figs.

2 and-3, so as to rest onthe neck 2 at oppo-' site sides of the nut. Grooves 10 are formed in the outer face of the "re-adjustercorre- 'sponollng to the-grooves in .thenut. When attached as described, the "-re adjuster serves to raise the strings 6 and provides them with a hollow metallicsupport which gives the desired'variation In tones: Because of the inverted .U-shape of there-adjuster,

the same straddling the nut, the ordinary use of the instrument will not displace thereadjuster, as might be the case if said readjuster did not completely straddlethe nut and rest upon the neckat both sides thereof.

Having thusdescribed my invention, what I claim as new and desire-to secure by Letters Patentofthe ilnited States is:

instrument for holding the strings off of the nut.

the tone of an ordinary "guitar to simulate thatof a Hawaiian guitar, comprising an inverted ill-shaped metallic support to straddie the nut and rest upon the neck of the instrumentfof holding the strings 0E of the nut.

A clip. for stringed instrument nuts members being higher than the sidesofsaid nut whereby the ms'trumentstrings will be elevated.

In testimony whereof I havesigned my name to this specification.

- WlLlilhM J. SMITH.

copies of this patent msyee-ettainea for five centewcaaiuty addressing as commissioner of manta,

1 Washington, 3M3.

r 2. 'A removable attachment for changing 

